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Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
Will Richardson
$50.36

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"Hits the nail on the head by emphasizing how technology can be used in ways that go beyond one-on-one student use with software programs and teachers' use of PowerPoint for presentations. The book emphasizes the collaborative work and learning that can occur when educators take advantage of all that the Internet has to offer."
-Erica Boling, Assistant Professor of Literacy Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Use the Web to help students learn more, create more, and communicate more effectively!

Technology impacts every facet of students' lives and plays a significant role in how students receive and process information. The second edition of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms shows educators at all levels and disciplines how to tap into the potential of digital tools for creating relevant, interactive learning experiences in the classroom.

With updated research on Web technology, a critical section on Internet safety, and a new emphasis on information literacy with related links, this resource equips teachers with:

• Definitions, explanations, and how-to's for using technology to enhance learning
• Applications for blogs, wikis, podcasts, Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, aggregators, social bookmarking, and online photo galleries
• Real-world examples from K–12 teachers around the world

When teachers expand their knowledge of Web tools to build 21st-century learning skills, they can effectively prepare students for future success.

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The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly
David Meerman Scott
$9.52

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The Internet has profoundly changed the way people communicate and interact with each other. But it has also changed the way businesses communicate with their customers (and those who they want to be customers). In the old days, companies could only communicate through the filter of expensive advertising or media ink placed by a PR firm. Today the rules have changed entirely.

The New Rules of Marketing and PR shows you how to leverage the potential that Web-based communication offers your business. Finally, you can speak directly to customers and buyers, establishing a personal link with the those who make your business work. You can reach niche buyers with targeted messages that cost a fraction of your big-budget ad campaign. Rather than bombard them with advertising they’ll likely ignore, you can focus on getting the right message to the right people at the right time.

When people visit your company’s Web site, they aren’t there to hear your slogan or see your logo again. They want information, interaction, and choice—and you’d be a fool not to give it to them. This one-of-a-kind guide to the future of marketing includes a step-by-step action plan for harnessing the power of the Internet, showing you how to identify audiences, create compelling messages, get those messages to the right people, and lead those consumers into the buying process. Including a wealth of compelling case studies and real-world examples, this is a practical guide to the new reality of PR and marketing.

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No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog
Margaret Mason
$7.68

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Tired of filling up your blog with boring posts? Take the next step and get inspired to create something unique. Author Margaret Mason shows you the way with this fun collection of inspirational ideas for your blog. Nobody Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog is a unique idea-book for bloggers seeking fun, creative inspiration. Margaret gives writers the prompts they need to describe, imagine, investigate and generate clever posts. Sample ideas include:

• Writing a serial novel
• Conducting unnecessary experiments
• Creating your autobiography
• Public eavesdropping
• And much, much more

BOOK
Blog Blazers
Stephane Grenier
$16.95

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A new blog comes online every 1.4 seconds. There are more than 70,000,000 blogs on the Internet. 99+% of them are unknown, unvisited and unprofitable. Far less than 1% generate healthy buzz, traffic and revenues. What's the difference between the two? What if it were just a few relatively easy-to-do things?

Well, there are, according to the most successful maestros of the blogosphere people like Seth Godin, Jeff Atwood, Aaron Wall, Eric Sink, Neil Patel and others. These are the true blog black belts, bloggers whose creations garner plenty of visitors, notoriety, and in most cases, income! And as they see it, transforming a blog from "crash-and-burn" to blast-off isn't rocket science!

In Blog Blazers, you'll learn the secrets of 40 top bloggers, as they all weigh in on such questions as:
- What's your best tip for writing a successful blog post?
- What are your main avenues for marketing your blog?
- What was your most successful blog post ever?
- What's the most common mistake new bloggers make?
- What turns you off most when visiting a blog?
- What's the best way to make money from your blog?
- Which books and websites do you recommend to new bloggers?
- Which five blogs do you regularly read?
- and many more!

While Blog Blazers can't guarantee fame and fortune, you ll learn what the top blogs all have in common and how to avoid the typical "blog blunders" the mistakes that doom most blogs right out of the gate.

A blockbuster blog the kind you thought only a few lucky souls had is less about luck and more about common sense and a little extra effort. And it's within your grasp. Let the pros show you the way.

BOOK
imagine...{Gods's Blogs} Insights from his site
Lanny Donoho
$2.99

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How would you feel if you thought God wrote a personal note to you…on His website…and it was about some of the stuff that makes you wonder if He really exists at all? This book does make you feel…while it makes you think. Maybe God isn’t who we thought He was. Maybe His thoughts aren’t what we have been taught. God’s Blogs contains some insightful, fresh thoughts that help us see more of God’s character, His love, and His grace as He reflects on marriage, death, laughter, dads, and questions like “Why are we here?” and, “What about tsunamis and poverty?” A fascinating read that will make you laugh and cry and search your own thoughts about who He is.

What Might God Say on His Blogsite?

Basically I’m entering into your blogdom because somehow the rumor got started that I was kind of boring. For those of you who bought into that craziness, you should know that I’m the one who created all the stuff you love…all the stuff that makes life exciting.

I invented funny and laughter.

I created adventure and romance…

I laugh a lot.



“Divinely inspired. This is an awesome book!”

Jeff Foxworthy

Very funny, smart man who loves God

“Fresh thoughts on life with God from one of the most creative—and quirky—communicators I know.”

Louie Giglio

Founder of Passion Conferences and author of I Am Not But I Know I AM

“This book went through me like liquid fire. It is so inspiring, uplifting, and refreshing.”

Dolly Parton

(everybody knows Dolly)

“Wonderfully fresh and imaginative.”

John C. Maxwell

Founder of INJOY Stewardship Services & EQUIP

“I found myself reading it out loud to anybody who would listen. You are going to love this book.”

Andy Stanley

Pastor, North Point Community Church

Story Behind the Book

"Blogging is a huge thing on the Web all over the world. Millions of people are logging on to millions of other people’s journals just to see what they have to say. Some blogs have a larger audience than the New York Times. With blogging being so trendy right now, it occurred to me, What might people do if they thought God was blogging online about what He was seeing or what He thought was important? That being the hook, I wanted to take biblical principles written in a form similar to Eugene Peterson’s The Message and attempt to use what is cultural to say what is timeless. God’s truths about His love and grace and fatherhood, written in a contemporary fashion, might just penetrate the hearts of those who need Him during times of trial, or of those who aren’t even sure He exists." — Lanny Donoho

BOOK
The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
Matthew Currier Burden
$1.95

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Matthew Currier Burden founded www.blackfive.net, one of the most popular military blogs on the Internet. His blog began as an homage to a friend killed on duty in Iraq and quickly became a source of information about what was really happening in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In The Blog of War Burden presents selections from some of the best of the military blogs, the purest account of the many voices of this war. This is the first real-time history of a war, a history written even as the war continues. It offers a glimpse into the full range of military experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, from the decision to enlist right through to homecoming. There are powerful stories of soldiers in combat, touching reflections on helping local victims of terror and war, pulse-racing accounts of med-evac units and hospitals, and heartbreaking chronicles of spouses who must cope when a loved one has paid the ultimate price. The Blog of War provides an uncensored, intimate, and authentic version of life in the war zone. Dozens of voices come together in a wartime choir that conveys better than any second-hand account possibly can what it is like to serve on the front lines.

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Blog Schmog: The Truth About What Blogs Can (and Can't) Do for Your Business
Robert W. Bly
$2.72

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Blog Schmog takes a look at the blogging phenomenon and its impact on politics, writing, marketing, public relations, publishing, journalism, and all other forms of communication. Written from a skeptic's point of view, Robert Bly holds blogging up to close scrutiny, giving practical, easy-to-use tips that can help you master blogging and its application.

This book cuts through the hype surrounding blogging, enabling you to get a true and accurate picture of blogging's potential as well as its limitations. Inside you'll discover how the blogosphere operates along with real-world advice from blogging experts on how to write an effective, reader-oriented blog.

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How to Make Money with Your Blog: The Ultimate Reference Guide for Building, Optimizing, and Monetizing Your Blog (How to Make . . .) (How to Make . . .)
Gavin Powell
$12.15

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Blogging for Dollars!

Whether you re an experienced blogger or an absolute beginner, you can make money with your blog. Simply follow the step-by-step advice of two expert bloggers and industry insiders who have launched many successful sites of their own. They ll walk you through every step of the blogging process, and they ll even share their most profitable tricks of the trade.

• Generate income using various types of ads
• Tap into the power of other blogs
• Maximize searches for more hits and more money

Every blogger and website owner needs to read this book. Bill Hartzer, billhartzer.com

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How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog (How to Do Everything)
Todd Stauffer
$12.74

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Incorporate the hottest new Web technologies into your blog! How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog makes it easy to choose the blogging tools that are best for you and master the basics of blog design and template manipulation. You'll learn how to add different Web 2.0 services to your blog, including images, video, audio, forums, tags, wikis, and even money-making features. It's time to take your blog to the next level and get more hits, more fans, more friends, and more customers.

• Learn about different blogging tools, including Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, and ExpressionEngine
• Customize your blog's design by editing templates and style sheets
• Share your blog headlines and story feeds via RSS and Atom
• Add photos, video, and audio--including podcasts--to your blog
• Drive traffic to your site with tagging, social bookmarking, and ranking services
• Collaborate with users through wikis
• Promote visitor participation using forums, community blogs, and newsletters
• Make money through your blog with Google AdSense, Amazon, and other affiliate programs
• Track, optimize, maintain, and back up your blog

BOOK
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, 6th Edition (The Complete Idiot's Guide)
Paul McFedries
$14.66

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Spin your own web! Free CD-ROM included.

More people are overcoming their digital fears and producing Internet content rather than just absorbing it. Whether their product is a collection of essays, stories, reviews, jokes, or shopping lists, they want to share it with everyone—from family and friends to strangers across the globe. How do they do it? By starting right here. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Creating a Web Page and Blog—the only book of its kind— will help anyone build and maintain an Internet website or blog. Coverage includes:
• Step-by-step instructions for building a site from the ground up
• Important HTML tags
• Tips on using fonts, colors, and images
• Incorporating tables, forms, style sheets, and JavaScripts
• The new blog technology
• Plus! A “Webmaster’s Toolkit” on a companion CD-ROM, providing files used in this book.